9 essays
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Written by John Hay, a student in attendance of the weekend. The focus of the retreat was the Gayatri mantra. Twenty-two of us met together at Waterperry house on the weekend of the 24 November 2023, near Oxfordshire under the guidance of Warwick and Elena Jessup.
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The recently completed mural at the School’s premises at Mandeville Place.
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Way back in 1959 I joined the School because of my wife; she bought me a ticket to an introductory public lecture by the Principal of the School. At that time I was a cartoonist and BBC TV Entertainment producer for Top of the Pops. None of us who joined the course at that time knew what to expect,
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Leon MacLaren was born in 1910 in Glasgow. His father, Andrew MacLaren, was MP for Burslem, and a great advocate of the teaching of the American Henry George and his land reform policies. In his youth Leon experienced the terrible poverty and social unrest arising from the great depression that fol
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“Why Shakespeare?” I was once asked to explain my passion for his words and universality. Ben Jonson, his fellow playwright back in 17th century England, said it so well: “Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage…” He declared on Shakespeare’s death in 1616….. that “He w
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For more than eight decades The School of Economic Science has worked extensively to bring an ethical dimension to understanding Economics with Justice based upon a Practical Philosophy rooted in Advaita Vedanta and emphasizing the inherent unity of all of life. Practical philosophy addresses the im
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The Sanskrit language has a special place in the School. This is because it provides direct access to philosophical texts such as the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Geeta and the works of the great philosopher Shankara. The elemental sounds of the language as expressed in its alphabet have special power,
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This book presents a radically different view of language from that found in most modern Western philosophy. Human language is seen as having an innate capacity to reflect the light of consciousness, the primary element of the universe, and evidence is provided to show the extraordinary reflective c
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The School of Economic Science, began in 1937 as the Henry George School of Economics. One of its aims was to demonstrate that freedom and prosperity are possible for people everywhere, providing we follow economic laws and aim for a fair outcome from economic arrangements. Justice is the ethical ba
